ISP with: 8mb, 10 POP mailboxes, spam filtering, newsgroups, authenticated SMTP?

I'm on the Pipex 2mb package, and thinking up upgrading to 8mb, but
their 8mb package only has 5 POP mailboxes, and newsgroups are extra.
Perhaps it's time to change.

I'm looking for an ISP with: 8mb, at least 10 POP mailboxes, spam
filtering at the POP server, NNTP newsgroup server, authenticated
SMTP, and, of course, reliable!

Any suggestions?

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Nigel M

Nigel Molesworth wrote:
> I'm on the Pipex 2mb package, and thinking up upgrading to 8mb, but
> their 8mb package only has 5 POP mailboxes, and newsgroups are extra.
> Perhaps it's time to change.
>
> I'm looking for an ISP with: 8mb, at least 10 POP mailboxes, spam
> filtering at the POP server, NNTP newsgroup server, authenticated
> SMTP, and, of course, reliable!

Approx monthly usage ?

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Mark
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:35:50 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:

>Approx monthly usage ?

I'm on unlimited at the moment, so I'd be reluctant to change.

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Nigel M

"Nigel Molesworth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm on the Pipex 2mb package, and thinking up upgrading to 8mb, but
> their 8mb package only has 5 POP mailboxes, and newsgroups are extra.
> Perhaps it's time to change.
>
> I'm looking for an ISP with: 8mb, at least 10 POP mailboxes, spam
> filtering at the POP server, NNTP newsgroup server, authenticated
> SMTP, and, of course, reliable!

you missed blood off your list ;-)

P.

"Nigel Molesworth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:35:50 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:
>
>>Approx monthly usage ?
>
> I'm on unlimited at the moment, so I'd be reluctant to change.
>
> --
> Nigel M

It depends what definition of "unlimited" your ISP uses as it seems to be a
very universal word adapting to different circumstances as required to screw
customers.
It helps with false advertising too. A group action against ISPs under the
unfair Contract Terms Act would soon sort them out. It can be done under
the no win no fee finance agreement scam/scheme.

On tiscali unlimited changes to a new meaning of limited between 6 and 11pm
for example. Any other time, the word changes back to the standard English
meaning.

On 27 Oct 2006, "pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>It helps with false advertising too. A group action against ISPs under the
>unfair Contract Terms Act would soon sort them out. It can be done under
>the no win no fee finance agreement scam/scheme.

a) I don't believe there's any 'group action' available under current laws

b) I doubt that it would be deemed 'unfair' if there's any mention in the
ISP's T+C documents that service may need to be restricted if there is
any chance of one user's account having a negative impact on others. I
have not gone away to check the T+C but it has been fairly common as some
'carte blanche' to allow an ISP to restrict the heaviest users in whatever
way the ISP sees fit... In some they could explicitly state that they'd
help a user move to another ISP (whereas others would just make service
sluggish to a degree where the user moves of their own volition).

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:06:06 +0100, Nigel Molesworth
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'm on the Pipex 2mb package, and thinking up upgrading to 8mb, but
>their 8mb package only has 5 POP mailboxes, and newsgroups are extra.
>Perhaps it's time to change.
>
>I'm looking for an ISP with: 8mb, at least 10 POP mailboxes, spam
>filtering at the POP server, NNTP newsgroup server, authenticated
>SMTP, and, of course, reliable!
>
>Any suggestions?

If you are referring to binary Newsgroups you may find it difficult to
get a service from an ISP which carries it at all or if it does the
number of missing headers is so great that it is of no real value.

My suggestion is to buy in a Binary Newsgroup service which is
relatively cheap eg $10 for 25GB.

KM